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The members of the INTERBUS Club
compile the profiles in several User
Groups. More efficient and flexible
systems are increasingly required in industrial sensor and actuator technology
within the scope of factory automation. Their full integration in complex
production processes, however, requires open, standardized communication.
The basic aim of open systems is
to allow the exchange of information between application functions implemented
on devices made by different manufacturers. This includes fixed application
functions, a uniform user interface for communication and a uniform
transmission medium. To enable the definition of device functions independent
of the communication medium, the standardized user interface conforming to DIN
19245 Part 2 has been used for communication. This provided a direct link to
Manufacturing Message Specification (MMS). For the user, this profile
definition is a useful supplement to standardized communication and provides a
generally valid model for data content and device behavior. These function
definitions standardize some essential device parameters. As a result, devices
from different manufacturers exhibit the same behavior on the communication
medium and can be exchanged without altering the application software when
these standard parameters are used.
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